Dr. Carl Perrin spent a half a century trying to save Western Civilzation by teaching thousands of college freshmen important stuff, like the difference between its and it's. Now he is ready to go on to bigger and better things.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

PEACE AND PROSPERITY

Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, President Bush said, "The stakes in November are high. This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance.” That is true, but not in the way he means it. We can’t help but wonder what kind of Orwellian logic leads him to suggest his party is offering peace and prosperity.

The country is on the brink of a recession. Perhaps the major cause of the impending recession is the implosion created by sub-prime mortgages, which has caused thousands upon thousands of foreclosures, a credit crisis, a falling stock market, and a loss of jobs. The mortgage industry needed some supervision, which the Republican administration was unwilling to give, because that would have been an interference in the market.

And peace! How dare he talk about peace? The country went to war in Afghanistan to try to take out the people who were responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center. But then, instead of pursuing that war with the intensity it deserved, the Bush administration opened another war, an unjustified war that they tried to justify with lies. That war has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States in countless way. George Bush should be ashamed to talk about peace!

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Dr Carl Perrin

About Me

When Carl Perrin was a wee lad, his father gave him a hatchet for his birthday. Perrin used the hatchet to chop down his father's prize cherry tree. When his dad asked who had cut down the tree, Perrin managed to blame it on his younger brother. That was only fair because the little rat was always getting him in trouble.
Perrin grew up to be an upstanding citizen with strong family values. Like that other great American, Rudy Giuliani, Perrin has shown his family values by getting married three times.